Example sentences of "i hear he " in BNC.

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1 Never before had I heard him , or — anyone else for that matter , sound so emphatic in praise of my written work .
2 ‘ 'T IS the voice of the sluggard ; I hear him complain ,
3 It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’
4 I hear him say , ‘ No treasure here , George . ’
5 I hear him not answering from where I lie above them with my ear to a hole that the rats made a long , long time ago .
6 But he said wait a minute I hear him coming down the stairs .
7 ‘ Thank heaven , I think I hear him coming . ’
8 Till I hear him laughing all the way to his tennis-court ( or my hallway , depending on whose anaglypta he 's erasing ) .
9 and then I hear him back , he says that he 's got great faith to believe the truth , know the truth , mhm , mm
10 ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’
11 The thing about Kennedy is that every time I hear he has done something outrageous I think ‘ Oh God ! ’ , but then I spend a few hours working with him and leave thinking what a good heart he has and how serious he is as a musician .
12 Madge said : ‘ I hear he wrote it [ Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ] in four months , between 2 and 4 in the afternoon . ’
13 I hear he 's given up his lecturing .
14 I hear he 's not too popular round here . ‘
15 I hear he 's an import . ’
16 But from what I hear he was too fussy for his own good .
17 I hear he 's ill . ’
18 I hear he 's fond of his computer .
19 I hear he 's got quite a reputation .
20 I hear he said you have your ticket to health you were n't gon na get paid .
21 So off I goes — and then I hears him hollerin' … ’
22 During a sojourn in Northumbria one of these ‘ academic high-flyers ’ remained implacably ‘ not one of us ’ , and I heard him summed up in the following terms :
23 ‘ Tell Mr. McCloy it 's no dice , ’ I heard him say and it was then I said had he got a match ?
24 ‘ Oh yes , ’ she said , ‘ I heard him once . ’
25 I had on the programme Brahms 's Fourth Symphony and at the rehearsal Lamond said to me , ‘ You know , I knew Brahms ; I heard him conduct this piece . ’
26 I heard him doing it .
27 Just after I 'd stepped under the shower , I heard him come up behind me .
28 My friend was about 50 feet above me and almost out of sight in the fog , when I heard him yell at me to ‘ come and see this ’ .
29 I heard him pumping up the pressure and singing a folk song which began , ‘ We do n't smoke pot in Norwich City ’ .
30 ‘ Poor sod , ’ I heard him mutter .
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